The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 22, 1953, Page 6

GOLFDOM’S GENE SARAZEN VACATIONS IN KEY WEST ‘All-Time Great ‘Tells Of His Ist Trip Here In 1921 It was just 22 years ago that Gene Sarazen, one of the nation’s all-time great golfing stars, paid his first visit to Key West, He -had wever been back since until tais week when he is spend- igg part of his annual Flor- ida vacation here. Sarazen who was playing first professional tourna- rient in Galveston, Texas, came to the Island City to éatch a boat to make the tourney. “Key West was gtve a quiet town then There wasn’t much here,” @razen said yesterday as Fe soaked up the sunshine. Bit was a year later, in 1922, that te man who has been tagged by the experts as one of the all-time great linksmen, captured the UL Ss. Gpen Golf Championship, his first miajor win in a career that has seen him lick the best of them. _ Aridvthe old-master, at the age & is still playing tournament golf. He will make about five gourpaments this year, including the Master’s and the Senior. “I can still break 70 but it ts dougher than it used to be,” Sa- Gazeh said yesterday. He is too busy with his farm at fown, New York where raises red cattle and ‘ouple of “ to play much golf “but | @iill:love st," he added. ESarazen is slated to try the Key West Golf Club’s course today. “You people ought to fix up that nd invited President Eisen- down here---he’s a golfer, now,” said Sarazen. double eagle at Augusta’s xd Bobby Jones Course is still ops among the thrills Sarazen has Wed; up in 22 years of golfing competition, “That was it,” azen, with his wife is stay- at the Key Ambassador while »p or = By THe Associated Press “TODAY A YEAR AGO — Steve Pokuf was named head football § cB at Lafayette. FIVE YEARS AGO—Vic Raschi, Mew. York Yankee right-hander, 4 his 1948 contract. IN YEARS AGO — The New ees bought first baseman ict Etten from the Philadelphia billies for an undisclosed amount éf cash and two Kansas City farm- Hands, Ed Levy and Allen: Gettel. , [WENTY YEARS AGO — Harry Cooper of Chicago won the Phoenix olf Open with a 72-hole score of i; +] Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, January 22, 1953 Dizzy Dean And Al Simmons Are Named To Baseball Hall Of Fame By JACK HAND NEW YORK (#:—Dizzy Dean, the last 30-game winner in the majors, and Al Simmons, a 20-year-man with a .334 lifetime batting aver- age, are the 1953 additions to base- ball’s Hall of Fame. Once again Bill Terry, former New York Giants’ manager-first baseman just missed election by the 10-year veterans of the Base- ball Writers Association. Memphis Bill missed by seven votes. Joe DiMexgio, believed a sure thing to make the grade in his first year of eligibility, didn’t even come close. The retired Yankee Clipper finished eighth, short 81 | votes. The veteran writers keep the Cooperstown, N. Y., club very ex- clusive. With a total of 264 writers | voting, it took 75 per cent—or 198— to gain the Hall of Fame. On four different years, nobody made it. Election of Dean and Simmons raises the membership to 64, of whom 27 have been picked by the writers. A special committee, head- ed by Clark Griffith, Washington owner, selects the old-timers who were not active in the last 25 years. Dean drew an impressive popu- lar vote of 209 votes, moving past Terry, whom he trailed in last year’s voting. Simmons, also be- hind Terry in 1952, just scraped home by one vote with a total of 199. “It's pretty doggone nice for an ole Arkansas cotton picker to be up there with those boys,’? Dean drawled when he heard the news. Simmons, reached at Hialeah race Ryan Due Here For Conferences Fri. A bout with the flu bug kept Joe Ryan, General Manager of the Miami Beach Flamingos from making a scheduled trip to Key West to discuss the possibi- lity. of moving that team hi Ryan is scheduled to meet with the city manager, city attorney and members of the city com- mission in an effort to arrive at an agreement whereby thé way will be paved for a Key West entry in the Florida International League. The city has indicated that they will go along with Ryan’s requests which include the con- cession rights atthe Wickers Field Stadium and fhe. construc- tion of 150 box seats.” Local officials have expressed hope that the deal can be worked out. "i Ryan is expected in the city tomorrow to begin the confer- ences. : . NOW in NEW Dark Tones Stripes and Checks MIRROR TEST MACNAIR® CORD SUITS This yeor Mirror Test Macnair Cord Suits are not only the coolest suits known to mon, they are also the best looking! in addition t0 the traditional stipes and colors, Macnoir Cords come in o wondertul se- lection of mew dork tone brown or bive stripes ond checks. Macnair built-up lined | construction guarentees you |” the kind of fine fit formerly | found only in high priced suits. | Don’t put i# off any longer— put on ao Mirror Test Macnoir | for cool comfort and that well dressed look. “g 95 —KANTOR'S meNs sHoP Duval St. track, chuckled that “it’s my lucky day—I just had three straight win- ners in the races.” The colorful Dean, a radio and television personality since arm trouble forced him out of base- ball, was a six-year phenom with the St. Louis Cardinals. In_ 1934 he had a 30-7 record for the Cards with Diz and’ his brother Paul practically pitching St. Louis to a pennant. Simmons with his famous “foot jin the bucket” stance ruined the |life of American League pitchers |for years. A powerful right-handed hitter whose real name was Al- joysius Szymanski, Simmons won batting championships with .381 in 390 in 1931. In 1927 he finished second to Harry Heilmann with 1 392, Simmons knew his greatest fame with Connie Mack and the Phila- delphia A’s from 1924 to 1932 but also played at Chicago, Detroit, Washington and Boston in the {American and Cincinnati and Bos- ton in the National. There were few real surprises in the writers’ vote except the fail- ure of Terry and DiMaggio to be elected. Bill Dickey, former Yankee |catcher, drew solid support with 179 votes, 12 behind Terfy’s 191. Rabbit Maranville, the little in- fielder with the famous basket |catch, also was a close up fifth j with 174 votes. Dazzy Vance, sto- lried Brooklyn pitching ace, was sixth at 150, with Ted Lyons, ex- Chicago White Sox pitching star, seventh at 139 and DiMaggio’s 117 |votes giving him eighth position. Witness Changes Story In Cage Bribe Testimony NEW YORK (#—A key witness against Bil Spivey, accused of perjury in the college basketball scandal probe, has conceded chang- ing his story about how much mon- ey changed hands because of crook- ed play in one game. . The matter arose yesterday as. the witness, Jim Line, a former basketball teammate of Spivey at the University of Kentucky, testi- fied that Spivey had helped fix games for pay. Line, now an engineer at Odessa, Tex., said he himself once had been given money to split with Spivey and another player for their part in the St. Louis - Kentucky Sugar Bowl basketball game Dec. 29, 1950. He said gambler Jack West, 40, now in prison for his part in fixing games, had given him $2,600 to divide with Spivey and Walter Hirsch, then the team captain and now an Army private. Line related that he kept $800, ‘gave Hirsch $800 and gave $1,000 to Spivey, a former All-America center. Spivey’s attorney, John Young Brown, read to the court what he | called conflicting testimony line had previously given to the basket- | ball-probing grand jury that indict- ed Spivey | Line conceded he had said pre- |viousiy that West had given him $1,600 to divide, but he said $2,600 was correct. Under questioning by General Sessions Judge Saul S. Streit, Line said West had told him how to split the sum. | Spivey, 23, is accused of commit- ing perjury when he told the grand jury he never had discussed basket. ball fixes or accepted bribes. The state cha he helped fix games ney for it. that he introduced ‘ivate meet- t Lexing- Hirsch reed to go along and /¢ the price for him in BENCH VIEWS By JACK K. BURKE Beverly Hanson had won the North Dakota State in 1947 -- “and that took a little doing because when I look back now, it seems 1 didn’t even ‘know which end- of the club to grip.” That same year she ripped up her Western Open entry blank after a couple of horrible warm- ups that looked more like nature study excursions than _ practice rounds, And she also failed to qualify for the Women’s Amateur. All of which had led her back to California to the movies and Helen’s instruction. In 1948, the lessons and movies began to pay off tellingly, as she won the Los Angeles Midwinter and began to come close in big ones, like semifinalist in both the Western Open and the Amateur. She might have won the Amateur that year if it hadn’t been for her father, who was gallerying the tournament. Helen Sigel, her op- ponent, came up with a sore back. However, thanks to treatment by Dr. Hanson, Helen went out the next day and put the whammy on Bev, 5 and 5. Things began to happen fast in 1949, Bev started her collection of championships with the Midwinter in Los Angeles, but she lost the California State to Dot Kielty by an eyelash. In October, Bev began to shoot to the top. Through the following May, she won seven straight tour- naments -- the Texas Open, Pasa- dena, Los Angeles Midwinter, the Indio and Palm Springs invita- tions, and the California State and Southern California championships. She was finally. stopped at the Trans-Mississippi in June. Bev, however, wnet on to be top ama- teur in the All-American Champ- ionship and to win her assigned matches in the international Cur- tis Cup play in Buffalo. Then came the big one, the National Amateur. There in Atlanta, she promptly demonstrated that she was going Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK # — Jersey Joe Walcott plainly had endured about. as much as he could. The former heavyweight champion kept scowl- ling and edging his chair forward, despite all his lawyer could do to hold him back, For 40 minutes by the clock, the old Pappy Guy had been sitting there and listening to the head men of boxing in this country dis- cuss, inferentially, whether his manager, .Felix Bocchicchio, was a fit person to be given a license by the Chicago or New York fight commissions. Felix at the time was in a near- by. hospital, fighting for his life against a heart attack which had struck him yesterday morning. Perhaps. it was this, and the ‘fact jthat his manager wasn’t there to |defend himself, which preyed on the veteran Negro boxer and fi- nally forced him to his feet | “It's not fair,” Walcott said in }a hot, angry voice. “Here you men jsit and talk about Mr. Bocchicchio jas if he had done something wrong . I want you to know that nly my manager but my friend. He has never in life dane one thing games where the team went under | w the point margin would be $1,000 a game and exceeded the spread,” Line said. e had known West | mony was similar irsch’s earlier account 0 when the team | to | le t fair, He should be license. Why should he be for boxing than n who haven't done et themselves osition.”” y Joe was the gullet of the handsome w York State n, and the chair. ar to like it. in a magazine did not u among oth- wo the boxing ristenberry chairman of the N Boxe “1 given him a manded. “You like him to ap- so you en say, im a license.” from what echiechio he’s ore cf a goa cent of the the boxing Christenberry in- | | | Seton Hall Net Coach Bemoans ToughSchedule SOUTH ORANGE, N. J., —Re- ‘member the old line, “Stagg fears Purdue,” that they used to quote when Amos Alonzo Stagg’s Chicago football teams were strong and | Purdue’s weak? to wrap up the championship by a 9 and 8 ouster of her firt-round opponent, Mrs. Lee Alexander of Syracuse. In the second roun¢, she gave a 6 and 5 beating to Marnie Polk. In the third, she defeated Texarkana’s Betty McKinnon on the 18th. Then came victories over Georgia’s Eileen Stulb, 4 and 3, and Philomena Garvey, champion of Ireland, 5 and 4. Bev won her toughest match in the tournament in the semi-finals by a one-hole margin over Grace DeMoss, who had twice before beaten her. That put her in the finals with Mae Murray, of Rut- land, Vermont. ; Mae went into. an early two-hole lead, which melted at the seventh and was forgotten by the 10th, where Bev went two up. From then on it was a cinch, Beverly tossed a relentless 74 at Mae in the morning and stayed even par in the afternoon session. The score was 6 and 4. But Bev, the newly crowned champion, didn’t stop with the Amateur tucked away. Shortly after, she was low amateur in the Carollton Open, second amateur in the U. S. Woman’s Open, won the Texas Open and the Pasadena city championship. She also finished in the runner-up spot in the 1951 Wo- men’s Titleholder’s Tournament at Augusta, Georgia -- ahead of all pros. Bev, then, with a matchless vic- tory string, had reached the top -- in five years. And, with her ir- repressible spirit of looking for new worlds to conquer, and at the same time having the opportunity to promote the game she now sincerely loves, Bev became a pro for the MacGregor Golf Co. in June, 1951. And-five days later in her first tournament as a professional .she promptly walked away with’ the Eastern Open in Reading, Pa., by cracking ‘what then established a new women’s record 215 for 54 holes! terjected, “give out licenses on a silver platter.” “You gentlemen are talking about whether I’m going to fight Rocky Marciano in April or in June,” Walcott went on. “I want you to know that as long as Mr. Bocchicchio is sick there will be no fight, I will never do anything without him. If he’s sick one week or six weeks or six months there will be no fight.” ‘ Grimly, Walcott sat down. He had gotten it off his chest.” “You've made a good case for Felix,” Christenberry said in a voice dripping with sarcasm, “‘but I'm afraid you haven't settled any- thing.” Jersey Joe looked as though he thought he had settled a lot as he made his way to the door. We; have repeated his remarks at some length because he might be the first fighter in history to have displayed such fierce loyalty to his manager. Whether he was right or wrong in defending Bocchicchio might be subject to debate, but we feel we know the old-timer from Camden } better than we ever did when he was the champion. He’s pretty much of a man, he is. O’Conor Is Appointed O'Conor, former U. S. senator from Maryland, has been named labor |” O'Conor, a Democrat who served | jfor a time as chairman of the | |Senate Crime Committee, will get | | $10,000 a year in his new post. j JANUARY 2 TO 31 | MARC OF | 4,5) 607 2° 9 16 { al 12 13 1 evel wey: i ol. ial 2228 24 5 E “ [25.26 27 2 Well, Honey Russell, coach of the undefeated Seton Hall basket- ball team, says, “I'd worry if we were playing the Nova Scotia fire department.’ The fire laddies, of course, are not among’ the 12 teams standing between the Hall and a perfect season, “But anything can happen in all 2 of our remaining games,” he insists when you ask’ if his team, the only major unbeaten club in the nation, ean go through without a loss. “The toughest ones look like Villanova, St. Bonaventure, Siena |—they’re always tough for us, and our Western trip at the end with Loyola in chicago, Dayton and Louisville. And I understand Day- ton will be pointing for us after we beat them last week. Russell, always a realist, already has taken steps to guard against his team xbeing affected by its ranking as No. 1 team in the As- sociated Press poll. With his team scheduled to go after™No. 19 against Memphis State tonight, he called the boys together yesterday and told them bluntly, “We want no inflated heads on this squad.”” “I gave them examples, and re are lots of them, of how writeups, pictures and so forth can - < your head if you believe all of it.” How has Seton Hall managed to go through without a loss thus far? “Well, we've been very, ve lucky, particularly in several pale games, and the kids have never lost their poise,” Russell said. “We had to change our whole style of play in one week because we lost Arnie Ring and Jim Ahearn just before the season started.” _“With those guys, who are both big and fast, we were goint to play strictly fast-break basketball, with'no pivot plays and very little Your living room’s a busy place. guests ... family gatherings. This ‘calls for. good lighting in your living room—lighting that’s easy to see by. Modern lighting cuts down on eyestrain, makes your liv- Outboard Club Cops Win In — City Cage Loop The Island City Basketball League completed its second week of play last night. They meet every Monday and Wednesday night for three games at the High School Gym. Last nights game between the Outboard Club and the General Electric was a nip and tuck affair from the first whistle. At one time were they more than four points difference, with the Outboard Club taking the game 39-37. The Junior Varsity, who are get- ting better every game, lost to Evans Enterprise 45-33, but they played a whale of a game all the way. - The Grace Lutheran Church and Jayeees game was postponed. The league standings to date: Team— Ww. L, Key West Outboard Club. 3 1 Evans Enterprise .....__.3 1 Grace Lutheran Church __. 2 1 General Electric 2 SAPO 2 Junior Varsity — 4 outside shooting. But they were de- clared ineligible because of marks, and we had to shift to pivot plays and outside shooting. And I had to work two new players, Harry Brooks and Harry Cvoper, into the lineup.” Baseballers Aid March Of Dimes Athletic contestants from the USS Bushnell contributed their efforts to help the March of Dimes Campaign just before the Bushnell sailed from Key West. fought game. Alt was small at both games tion was taken by the Dimes Queens constestants and the cause for polio n more advanced. defend his title again. - . On Feb. 11, Gavilan meets Chuck Davey in Chicago in’ should be a humdinger of a Last night Gavilan tuned up his title defense, with a non-title victory over Vie of Hartford, Conn. Gavilan 152 to Cardell’s 149. The fight was watched by a pai crowd of 5,625 and a nationwide television audience, TRADE AT HOME BE SAFE AND SURE YOUR LOCAL DEALER WILL GIVE YOU COMPLETE SATISFACTION . KEY WEST AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION Seoccccccceococeesooss oe your living room entertaining For the winter nights ahead, get good lighting in your living room— and all through the rest of your home, too. Better light means better sight—and better, brighter evenings for the whole family. G:iry Exvectric System